So I turned 22 yesterday/today.
I just got back from Nine Irish for the second time tonight. I went out for my first birthday to the bars, I never went out last year since no one I knew was 21 at the time. Devin-cakes was a baller and got me an Irish car bomb, my favorite drink at the pub. I had a Smithwick’s and then requested my second birthday shot of the night, I had my first at Nine Irish with dinner that I got to share with my dad. It was very nice. I get to spend the next few months going to bars with Devin-cakes like old times, with me trying to get him to hit on girls for the entire time, and him being shy the entire time. Eventually I will succeed. Even if it kills me.
So I now have had my first birthday past all the milestones. 22 seems foreign. It is not a milestone birthday, and the only birthday after this that is a milestone is 30, 40. 50, etc. And they are just becoming old, older, and even more older (sorry mom). I mean when I hit 30 (my next milestone) I will be in my possible long term career, probably be married or be about to get married, thinking about kids. I mean that lifestyle is so incredibly foreign to me now. I don’t even know if it will involve Kim (I hope so right now, but I can’t make any guarantees). I don’t know where it will be or what I am doing. I don’t even know if I will be enjoying it (I hope so). 30 seems like such a mystery. And then 40 is the next milestone after that. I am scarred to think where I will be at that point. When I am 40, my mom will be in her 80’s and dad in his late 70’s. Where will they be, can they be still there giving me advice, or will I be sitting there flying by the seat of my pants? Will I have kids or be living a nice childless lifestyle with my wife or be living a single lifestyle mingling with women or will I be a celibate nerd working on a computer through my free nights (I really hope not)? 22 gives me too many mysteries. I still have a final year of college ahead of me and I am already lost when it comes to the future ahead of me. Gah! wish there was some cheat manual that spoiled the ending for me. Then I could know how it all turned out in the end.
22 is too old, and came too soon. (If there are any misspellings, I will hopefully spot them when I read over it sober)